Shield - Kaidate

…[Kenichi Kobayashi] In Japan, a portable shield is called a hand shield or a hand shield, and is made of leather or wood, sometimes wrapped in leather, but is generally small and used mainly by infantry in battles with uchimono (pointing weapons) or nagae (long-handled weapons). Kaidate (pointing shields) are used to defend against horseback archery, and are lined up in front of the battlefield, and are also lined up around towers and the edges of ships. These are large and wrapped in iron or iron-like leather, but most are made of hard, thick wooden boards, and from around the Kamakura period, the owner's name was attached to the surface, similar to a flag. A kaidate is a rectangular board with a horizontal bar near the top of the back and a support pole attached, and a board with a hanging hook and a pot on the end, which is hung like a wooden fence, is called a tatami shield. …

*Some of the terminology explanations that mention "搔ダン" are listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

…【小林 謙一】　日本では携帯用の盾を手盾，または持盾といい，革または木製，ときには木質革包みとするが，総体に小型で，もっぱら歩兵による打物（うちもの）や長柄（ながえ）の戦いに用いた。騎射防御として用いるのは陣前に並列する搔盾（かいだて）であり，櫓（やぐら）の周囲や船のへりにも並列するが，これは大型で鉄または鉄質革包みもあるが，多くは堅硬な木の厚板を使用し，鎌倉時代ころから表面に旗標（はたじるし）と同様，所有者の標識をつけた。搔盾は長方形の板で，裏面上部寄りに横桟をいれて支柱をとりつけるが，さらに板の端に懸金（かけがね）と壺（つぼ）を設けて板塀のように懸け合わせる仕立があるのを畳盾といった。…

※「搔盾」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。

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